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The Crisis of Pop-Psychology

Surfing through Quora I came across a question with over seven followers and tons of answers with more than a thousand upvotes with some…

4 min readSep 18, 2019

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The Crisis of Pop-Psychology

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Are Financial Markets rational?

In most of his lectures[1] [2] [3] based on the history and meaning of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler[4] a Nobel-winning Economist…

4 min readAug 7, 2019

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Are Financial Markets rational?

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The Sokal Hoax, a balanced overview.

It is 1996 and Alan Sokal [2] a reputed NYU [3] mathematical physicist published in Social Text, a cultural studies journal published by…

7 min readJan 15, 2019

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The Sokal Hoax, a balanced overview.

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The reproducibility of cognitive psychology

This post aims to summarize the research paper by Rolf A. Zwaan, Diane Pecher, Gabriele Paolacci, Samantha Bouwmeester, Peter Verkoeijen…

4 min readNov 9, 2018

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The reproducibility of cognitive psychology

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John Locke on Immigration and Borders

In his greatest and most known political work, the Second Treatise of Civil Goverment[1] (section 118) Locke says,

3 min readNov 9, 2018

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John Locke on Immigration and Borders

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How patriarchy harms Males — An Indian Perspective

My argument in this post is that Indian patriarchy poses a devastating threat to Males in India. For me to come to my point, let’s…

4 min readNov 9, 2018

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An allegory of humanity, freedom and memories.

Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve

6 min readFeb 10, 2018

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An allegory of humanity, freedom and memories.

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Ad Hominem: A Fallacy misunderstood.

We all know about Ad Hom. It’s the most cited logical Fallacy. It’s easy to understand, easy to remember and sounds fancy.

1 min readDec 22, 2017

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Ad Hominem: A Fallacy misunderstood.

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What do people get wrong about Occam’s Razor?

Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the…

2 min readSep 29, 2017

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What do people get wrong about Occam’s Razor?

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The Frequency Illusion

The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one’s attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable…

1 min readSep 27, 2017

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The Frequency Illusion

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A collection of stuff I wrote from various places on the internet. Posts here are part of an archive, they're not necessarily things I agree with anymore.

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